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Neat. Didnt Microsoft release a tool that morphed between two photos a decade ago? I dont recall the name unfortunately, but the effect was similar, less quality.
Back in the DOS days I had (and a still do) a copy of a tool called 'Morph', it took two GIF images, and you placed marker points on the first image and then again on the second, and it generated an MPEG2 file of the morphing. Very impressive for the time.
It's clear that the next frontier is to have 3D-space instead of image space transitions. Language itself is very static and action verbs are not enough to specify scene dynamics. I suppose we would need: A. an enriched version of natural language that refines the dynamic processes that occur in a scene B. a data set of isolated processes labeled in the language described in A. I've had a hard time finding ongoing wo…
Imagine opening blender and typing
> A medium sized classroom, well lit, with two blackboards and many geography posters
And the AI just generates all the 3D meshes and places them appropriately.
Repeat that for other props or characters that you need. After that you can manually tweak the scene as you currently would (moving things, etc).
Then you select a character, and to animate you tell it
> The character calmly walks to the door and proceeds to open it
You could literally do a 100+ hour job in 5 minutes.
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You can probably expect them for any interesting technology forever into the future, since people have made these useless complaints for hundreds of years at least.
First they came for the horses…. And so on.
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You can probably expect them for any interesting technology forever into the future, since people have made these useless complaints for hundreds of years at least.
First they came for the horses…. And so on.
AI in animation has been interesting to me for a while now. It leaves me a little conflicted though. If we get to the point where we can throw key drawings at AI and let it handle all the inbewteens without a bunch of tweaking and cleanup afterwards it's going to really suck for places like Korea! I guess all those inbeatweeners will just be another victim of automation. I've always loved animation, but I'll admit pa…
Last year, when 3090 GPUs were astronomically priced, I thought "screw it, I'll just buy an RTX A5000 for a couple of hundred bucks more." Which begat a second A5000 for "reasons." It was almost prescient. Now all these models are coming out requiring slightly higher VRAM GPUs than a 3090, i.e. more in the range of the A5000, and I get to run them. I am a kid in a candy store this past couple of weeks.
AI in animation has been interesting to me for a while now. It leaves me a little conflicted though. If we get to the point where we can throw key drawings at AI and let it handle all the inbewteens without a bunch of tweaking and cleanup afterwards it's going to really suck for places like Korea! I guess all those inbeatweeners will just be another victim of automation. I've always loved animation, but I'll admit pa…
This is not an example of AI handling the inbetweens. This water-morph effect is undesirable for inbetweens.